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Last line of article is part of a Stallman quote:
Stallman: ...extracting money from users of a program by restricting their use of it is destructive.
Either I don't fully understand that quote, or it is completely ridiculous.
1) It is a known fact that if you provide your software for free then like 15% of people pay some amount for it (85% or more never pay for it). A developer cannot support herself from the donations even on very popular projects.
2) Also, "restricting their use of it" is actually the definition of every product where anyone gets paid.
For example:
a) Teslas are not free. You are restricted from their use, until you pay for one.
b) Plumbing services are not free. You are restricted from their use, until you pay (or agree to pay) the plumber.
c) Internet service is not free. You are restricted from its use until you pay for it.
d) Software development is not free. You are restricted from having software developed until you pay the software developer.
e) ad infinitum...
3) if something is not of restricted use, then people (consumers) use it freely and no one is paid for the thing, service, etc.
The article also mentions that you can continue to use older versions of the software which fell under the original open source license -- before the company or individual placed it under a new restrictive license.
Also, it is quite likely that the current feeling that software is valueless has been caused by software developers giving everything away.
In summary, I have no idea what that article is talking about.
But, I'm sure someone will explain it to me. 
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And Stallman himself requires payment for him to give a talk somewhere, thus 'extracting money by restricting his use' 
Where I have problems with the way some open source companies are going. They have their software open sourced initially, then once it's become popular (and the bugs get ironed out by the 'many eyes'), they switch to a closed source model. Or at least a supported fork of it is closed source. RedHat, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Elastic, etc., etc.
TTFN - Kent
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raddevus wrote: Also, it is quite likely that the current feeling that software is valueless has been caused by software developers giving everything away.
That's 100% AAPL's doing and why I think you should most definitely give them the finger and forget they exist if you are a software developer.
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In software development, ensuring uniform coding styles across different editors and IDEs is challenging. Central command has defined indentation to be pi spaces
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Central command has defined indentation to be pi spaces
That's going to be funny in python...
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Quote: In Visual Studio you can create a new .editorconfig file this way:
Unless you happen to be running Visual Studio 2022 (prior to v17.9.x), where this option simply does nothing:
Unable to add editorconfig file in VS2022 - Developer Community[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sketching complex art imagery may be AI's specialty, yet some of the simplest tasks are evidently what AI struggles with the most. A polar bear eating marshmallows during a blizzard?
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Red Hat warned users to immediately stop using systems running Fedora development and experimental versions because of a backdoor found in the latest XZ Utils data compression tools and libraries. Were all those eyes looking for bugs in alphabetical order?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Were all those eyes looking for bugs in alphabetical order?
I think they were bussier looking for things in Windows to say "look, this is creap and my way is better"
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Microsoft is restoring drag-and-drop functionality to File Explorer’s address bar after removing the feature in Windows 11 23H2 (Moment 4). By 'finally', they mean, 'bringing it back'
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Kent Sharkey wrote: By 'finally', they mean, 'bringing it back'
As long as it is not "breaking it again"... 
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Microsoft's claim of not many people using drag and drop needs to be backed by actual telemetry numbers. My suspicion is that not many Microsoft developers use it.
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Use of "Lenna" image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s. They're tired of their kid brother stealing their copy of Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Not to mention the pages stuck together[1].
[1] He likes to eat baklava and caramel corn while reading them
Sorry to those offended by the barest mention of that publication[2].
[2] IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, of course. Fans of Microwave and Optical Technology Letters will no doubt be offended.
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When I was a kid my older cousins were talking about Playboy and similar as "magazines that you read with only one hand"
Me (somewhen between 5 and 7 years old): And with the other hand... you change the page?  
How easy and nice was the world back then... 
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Echoing the past two years of Rust evangelism and C/C++ ennui, Google reports that Rust shines in production, to the point that its developers are twice as productive using the language compared to C++. Is faster better?
I guess for management it is
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is faster better?I guess for management it is
I thought for management was cheaper better
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Called Voice Generation, the model has been in development since late 2022 and powers the Read Aloud feature in ChatGPT. They're waiting for someone to think of a non-malicious use of it before they release it
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They're waiting for someone to think of a non-malicious use of it before they release it
and it now is news because they found someone? I really doubt it
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So is this 73 million new social security numbers or are they the same social security numbers stolen from Equifax a few years ago?
The reality is that this horse has already escaped the barn.
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The rockets will be tasked with taking observations of how the sudden drop in sunlight affects the ionosphere which in turn will lead to better research on making sure our increasingly communication-dependent world operates smoothly. To chase away the wolves eating the sun
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When is the mission to examine the stack of turtles?
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Joe Woodbury wrote: to examine the stack of turtles?
Cowaboonga?
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Why didn't they include a graphic that had Ionosphere labeled? Does it include some of the ones that were labeled on the graphic? Journalism at its best. Would say the same thing if it was MSNBC or CNN too, so it isn't a political thing.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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